Featured: 11-4-2013 ArtBabble

ArtBabble showcases high quality art-related video content from more than fifty cultural institutions from around the world.

ArtBabble brings art content from different places and perspectives together, where it can be easily found and accessed. People who love and are interested in art may find ArtBabble a unique and engaging place to explore and learn.

ArtBabble may prove particularly advantageous to educators who can use it as a way to support their classroom activities. The For Educators page helps teachers quickly and easily find what they are looking for.

Browse by Theme, Medium, Period & Style, Location, People, and more, or search by keyword.

Created in 2009, ArtBabble is the product of a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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Featured: 9-18-2013 LearnBIG

 

LearnBIG is a tool to facilitate searching for online educational resources. Access tens of thousands of online courses, educational games, videos, and more.

Filter LearnBIG searches by subject, level, media, device, and even learning style, helping you find exactly what meets your needs.

LearnBIG resources are user-rated. You have a community of teachers, parents, and learners sharing their experiences with the best tools out there. Registered users can review resources as well as share their favorites on LearnBIG.

 See how LearnBIG works

Based in Seattle, WA, LearnBIG is made up of educators, parents, grandparents, and students.

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Featured: 7-8-2013 Federal Registry for Educational Excellence

Making it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources from the federal government as well as public and private organizations is the purpose of the Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE).

Currently, more than 180,000 learning resources are registered with The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence. Signing up for the FREE RSS feed gets the newest resources delivered to you several times a week.

A new version of FREE, powered by the Learning Registry - an open database for sharing digital learning resources, incorporates a more responsive design for better access from mobile devices.

The new FREE is a work in progress. More and more resources are being correlated to national and state standards and more social features are planned for the site.

FREE is maintained by the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education in partnership with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative.

FREE originated in 1997, in response to a memo from President Bill Clinton. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in 2006 and again this year.

The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence is one of the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the US Department of Education because of the many resources being offered by contributing federal agencies.

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Featured: 6-18-2013 National Science Digital Library

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) provides links to quality educational resources for teaching and learning online, with emphasis on the STEM disciplines.

NSDL provides structured, descriptive information about web-based educational resources located on other sites. The providers contribute this metadata to NSDL where it is organized into a searchable resource.

Browse national educational standards, including the Common Core Math Standards and find NSDL resources that are associated with key learning goals. View the distribution of NSDL resources in graphical form and browse by education level, resource type, subject, and audience.

Although some resources are restricted to provider site membership, or may have a cost associated with them, most resources in the library adhere to principles of free Open Educational Resource (OER) access.

Partners in the National Science Digital Library network include STEM education organizations and institutions providing digital resource collections, services, partnering opportunities, and connections to communities over a full range of education levels and disciplines.

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Featured: 6-12-2013 TeachEngineering

TeachEngineering is a digital library of standards-based* engineering curricula for the use of K-12 teachers to make applied science and mathematics interesting and engaging.

The TeachEngineering collection provides educators with free access to a growing resource of multi-week units, lessons, activities, and living labs. The collection continues to grow and evolve with new additions from universities, and input from teachers who use the curricula in their classrooms.

Click on Search Curriculum or Browse Curriculum to find what you want for your classroom from the more than 900 lessons and activities currently available.

In most cases, TeachEngineering activities use ordinary materials that you can find in your classroom, school, home, grocery store or hardware store.

Use of curriculum found in the TeachEngineering collection is free to teachers using it in their classrooms. There is no fee or membership requirement (There is an optional MyTE workspace you may use to keep track of favorite lessons and activities, or to submit reviews). No special kits or materials are needed.

TeachEngineering is a collaborative project between faculty, students, and teachers associated with five universities and the American Society for Engineering Education, with NSF National Science Digital Library funding.

*Every lesson and every activity is aligned to the science and math educational standards of the state in which it was first developed and classroom tested. From that information, TeachEngineering provides rough alignment to other state and national educational standards.

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Featured: 3/19/2013 GetEdFunding [Funding]

GetEdFunding is a free grant finding resource to help public and private preK–12 schools, districts, educators, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations that work with them, locate and secure the funding they need.



The mission of the GetEdFunding website is to help close the equity gap in educating students from all backgrounds and circumstances by helping educators and institutions acquire the funds they need to supplement tight budgets.

GetEdFunding has currently collected more than 1,000 grants and opportunities from federal, state, regional, and community sources. GetEdFunding is monitored, updated, and expanded daily.

You can search GetEdFunding by six criteria, including 41 areas of focus, 8 content areas, and themes and skills that support your curriculum. Once you are registered, you can save the grants of greatest interest, then return to read about them at any time.




GetEdFunding is sponsored by CDW-G and created by educational professionals for educational professionals. It’s meant to be an easy-to-use, relevant, and reliable database that will be used again and again. Former and active preK through 12 teachers, higher level educators, and experienced educational publishing writers have been involved in every stage of development of this database.

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COD - 9/20/2012 - EducationWorld [Resources]

EducationWorld is a free and comprehensive resource for educators, a place where teachers can gather and share ideas, and find high-quality lesson plans and research materials.

The original content offered at EducationWorld includes lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts.

Other resources at EducationWorld:

• Website reviews
• Special features and columns
• Employment listings

EducationWorld was founded in 1996, to create an Internet home for educators. It is funded by corporate sponsors and advertisers in order to keep the site free for all teachers.

EducationWorld has received many awards and recognitions, including the Parenting Journal's "Editor's Choice Award" and USA Today's "Best Bet for Educators."

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COD - 9/5/2012 - Film Story [Social Studies]

Film Story is an interactive resource to explore the relationship between film and history and to start conversations and provide interaction about historical topics.

Because so many people interact with and learn about historical people, places, and events through film. Film Story is intended to get people talking about the events of the past represented in film and use that dialogue as a place of learning.

Film Story strives to generate a sense of exploration and curiosity as you explore the relationship between history and film. You can dig through and interpret layers of historical information for yourself. 

Using Film Story, look beyond a film's representation of history and investigate the history of the film itself. What does a film tell you about the times in which it was made?

A goal of Film Story is to promote the access to, viewing of, and purchasing of the films featured. You should be able to locate the films featured on Film Story through online sources, DVDs, WorldCat, or local film rental stores.

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COD - 8/7/2012 - Web English Teacher [ELA]

Web English Teacher is a library of K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources such as lesson plans, videos, e-texts, technology integration, and classroom activities.

Started by Carla Beard in June of 2000, Web English Teacher can be thought of "as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale." At Web English Teacher educators can share ideas and benefit from the work of others. While beginning teachers can find guidance, experienced teachers can find inspiration. 

The plethora of English-teaching resources at Web English Teacher has been organized into more than twenty categories including topics such as Grammar, Journalism, Poetry, Vocabulary, Writing, etc.

The Web English Teacher newsletter, ConnectEng, comes out once or twice a month.

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COD - 6/20/2012 - Jump$tart [Economics]

Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards, and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.

Founded in 1995, Jump$tart is now a partnership of about 150 national organizations and entities from the corporate, non-profit, academic, government, and other sectors. These coalition partners include such familiar organizations as Bank of America, Capital One, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Equifax, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Education Association, and many more. These partner organizations generally conduct and/or support financial education or offer financial education tools and materials.

Jump$tart also includes a network of 49 affiliated state coalitions.  Each state coalition is an independently governed and operated non-profit organization, united with the national Jump$tart Coalition through an affiliation agreement and a desire to advance Jump$tart’s mission of financial astuteness for students. Jump$tart's state coalitions are operated predominately by volunteers.

Jump$tart’s strategic role is to provide resources that complement and enhance the individual and collective work of its partners and to take on activities that advance the financial literacy effort on behalf of all of its partners. Jump$tart’s online Clearinghouse is the nation’s most comprehensive collection of financial education resources suitable for students in pre-K through college, reviewed for appropriateness, and based on the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education.

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COD - 6/7/2012 - More Language Resources [Languages]

Just in time for summer travel, EDge21's Catch of the Day this week featured a number of online resources to support foreign language learning, wrapping up with these three websites that each offer substantial compilations of language learning resources.

Word2Word provides links to free online language courses in the hope of all people developing a better understanding of others through the use of language. They have attempted to place as many online courses at your disposal as possible. The courses vary widely in quality and the quantity of material presented. 

 

Learn a Language is an extensive, free website providing resources to learn languages including hundreds of free language-learning lessons, games, and activities. You can learn over 1,400 words for free. There are interactive audio/visual flashcards to help you learn. You can also learn important phrases like greetings, survival expressions, and slang words in the language of your choice.

 

The Open Culture collection features lessons in 40 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Most are available as downloadable audio lessons for your computer, iPod, or other audio player.

Go to previous EDge21 posts about language learning sites

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COD - 2/13/2012 - WatchKnowLearn [Videos]

The WatchKnowLearn plan is to deliver free educational videos over the Internet that can be viewed any time, anywhere, so that everyone can have the same opportunity to learn.

WatchKnowLearn believes the best way to make this happen is by organizing the hundreds of thousands of good videos currently available on the Internet into one super directory.

To this end WatchKnowLearn invites educators to suggest videos for inclusion into their directory, and then to review, approve, and assign those videos into appropriate categories. The videos are high quality and cover all major topics from elementary to secondary schools. WatchKnowLearn has so far indexed over 20,000 educational videos into a directory including over 3,000 categories.

No registration or fees are required of teachers in order to use the videos in the classroom or for students to use them at home 24/7. Users can browse the directory or search WatchKnowLearn by subject and age level.

The WatchKnowLearn website invites participation in a wiki system guided by teachers. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness.

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Catch of The Day - EducatorsResources.com - 10/10/2011

EducatorsResources.com strives to provide up-to-date, comprehensive information on educational, enrichment, recreational, and entertainment activities in an easy to use format for teachers, parents, and others who work with young people.

EducatorsResources.com is a directory of fundraising resources and ideas; school assembly  programs; supplies, equipment, and services vendors; and professional development resources for teachers, school staff, and PTA officers.

EducatorsResources.com has organized their information into categories such as Assembly & Outreach Programs, Fundraising, Instructional Materials, etc. Each of these categories is further organized into several sub-categories. You can browse by sub-category or you can do a full keyword site search. Organizations and companies are sorted by regions served and include contact information such as email and website and a description.

EducatorsResources.com is a website of Family Publications which has been providing information to parents, teachers, and others for over 30 years.

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Catch of the Day - The Canadian Teacher - 2/4/2011

The Canadian Teacher is a website providing free tools, materials, guides, and a forum for Canadian teachers.

The Canadian Teacher content:

• Free stuff - directory of over 900 items
• Teachers' tools - seating plans, classroom forms, calendars and more
• Forum - interact with members on a variety of teaching topics
• Articles - articles that relate to real classroom issues, book and resource reviews
• Classifieds - post and browse ads for free

Teacher Downloads has a wide selection of ebooks and interactive PDF forms for use in your classroom. You will find interactive forms to create passes, calendars, binder spine labels, and more. You can submit and share your own forms, letters, and reproducible materials, too.

Among the items in the Teacher Tools category are assessment generators, seating plan tools, a lesson plan search tool, letter and list generators, and math worksheet creators.

You can subscribe to dozens of RSS feeds from The Canadian Teacher and stay connected and current. Browse the archives to find previously posted material.

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Catch of the Day - Sites for Teachers - 11/2/2010

Sites for Teachers is a free directory of teacher's resources and educational sites on the Internet.

Sites for Teachers only includes links to sites that contain teacher resources and materials. The sites are ranked by popularity, and Sites for Teachers has strict rules for the listed sites.

At Sites for Teachers you can find lesson plans, worksheets, clip art, activities, and more in all subject areas. If you manage such a site, you can get it listed, too.

Sites for Teachers is completely free, both for the visitor and for the sites being listed.

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